1. Constantly being asked, "How do you see through all that hair?"
2. A stud falling off of your studded belt.
3. Deciding which side of a double-sided poster from Kerrang! you would use.
4. Not being able to scream along to songs properly.
5. All the dyeing, straightening, and backcombing taking a toll on your hair.
6. Trying to get the perfect Myspace profile picture using a digital camera.
7. And spending hours looking for a suitably emo Myspace layout.
8. Getting sweaty hands from wearing fingerless gloves in the summer.
9. And feeling like you were melting whenever you wore these on a hot day.
10. Never quite knowing if the lyrics you'd chosen would fit properly on your Converse.
11. Your black clothes not matching.
12. Never being able to master those complicated Ryan Ross eyeliner looks.
13. Having a blank gap on your wall of band posters.
14. Windy days being terrible in case someone saw both of your eyes.
15. Not being able to find your favourite band shirt among your other 20 identical ones.
16. Getting a gap in your perfectly styled emo fringe.
17. And finally, hearing "it's just a phase".
